单词 | stroud blanket |
释义 | > as lemmasstroud blanket 1. A blanket manufactured for barter or sale in trading with the North American Indians. Also stroud blanket. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > merchandise > [noun] > goods for bartering > with undeveloped peoples > specific stroud1683 pound beads1826 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > household linen > bedclothes > [noun] > blanket > blanket made for or by North American Indians stroud1683 Indian blanket1714 pointed blanket1779 point blanket1783 mackinaw1836 Chilkat1890 Hudson Bay blanket1900 1683 in C. H. Hunt Life E. Livingston (1864) 6 Four garments of Strouds. 1751 C. Gist Jrnls. (1893) 53 Six Strouds, two Match-Coats, and a String of Wampum. 1753 in Colonial Rec. Pennsylvania (1851) V. 681 Be pleased to present to the widow of the Piankasha King..these Handkerchiefs to wipe the Tears from her Eyes; and likewise give her Son these two Strowds to clothe him. 1809 A. Henry Trav. & Adventures Canada 119 Before him, on a new stroud blanket, was placed a bason of water. 1812 J. J. Henry Accurate Acct. Campaign against Quebec 133 A large, but coarse blue blanket, called a stroud. 1846 T. L. McKenney Mem. I. i. 21 It was not so much a competition in blankets, and strouds, and calicoes..as in whiskey. 1858 in P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products 1872 Rep. Indian Affairs 1871 (U.S.) 459 Blankets, leggings, strouds, paints. < as lemmas |
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